Mammoth Book of Prison Breaks
Author(s): Paul Simpson
True stories of prison breaks including those of Frank Abagnale, whose story is told in Catch Me If You Can; Henri Charriere who claimed to have escaped from the supposedly inescapable Devil's Island - the true story as opposed to his questionable memoir, Papillon; Bud Day, said to be the only US serviceman ever to have escaped to South Vietnam; the six prisoners who escaped from Death Row in Mecklenburg Correctional Center; and Pascal Payeret, the French armed robber who escaped not once, but twice from French prisons with the help of a helicopter.
Product Information
Extraordinary accounts of remarkable escapes from maximum-security prisons.
Paul Simpson is the author or co-author of over a dozen non-fiction books including an acclaimed round-up of conspiracy theories. He has edited and contributed to numerous international entertainment magazines and currently oversees news and reviews website SciFiBulletin.com
General Fields
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- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : 0.359
- : 31 May 2013
- : 197mm X 130mm X 33mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Paul Simpson
- : Paperback
- : 365.641
- : very good
- : 528